Having FTP issues with one of my mirrors, but the other seems fine. I'll just link the working mirror for now.

Haven't made a package yet for Puppy 301 and 400, but the rest of the 4-series as well as Lucid, Slacko, and the latest Racy and Wary have packages available. I may also add packages for a few other versions in the next few days, and if I do I'll update this post with a quick note.

If you have ever installed another or older virtualbox PET/SFS and trying new, remove old ones and delete '/lib/modules/*/misc/vbox*.ko', /opt/VirtualBox, if they are exists, before loading the new.

As for slacko, you may need to install 'mesa' package.

virtualbox-4.1.16.sfs has pre-build kernel modules for:

2.6.30.5 (Puppy-4.3.x)

2.6.32.28 (Lupu)

2.6.32.59 (Wary-511)

2.6.33.2 (Wary-5.3)

3.0.25 (Racy-5.3)

3.1.10-slacko_4gA (slacko-5.3.3)

3.1.10-slacko_paeA (slacko-5.3.3 PAE)

For other kernels, you need corresponding kernel source and devx to build the vbox kernel modules.
Load the kernel source SFS, devx SFS and this virtualbox SFS. Then type 'virtualbox' on a terminal.

For my clarification, does this mean that if I use any 1 of the 7 distros mentioned, I will NOT have to download kernels or DEVXs?

And, is there a description or manual or information tailored to just Puppy Linux VM operations (host and Guest) somewhere?

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For my clarification, does this mean that if I use any 1 of the 7 distros mentioned, I will NOT have to download kernels or DEVXs?

You are correct. For those listed Puppy versions, the SFS is good-to-go out-of-the-box, excepting (maybe) high-performance graphics drivers, or maybe SDL libraries. No need for the DEVX or kernel sources, though.

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And, is there a description or manual or information tailored to just Puppy Linux VM operations (host and Guest) somewhere?

Thankyou so much for your virtualbox pets! With Puppy Linux and VBox I can now run a VM straight off my USB stick without ever touching the host computer's HD. Have spent many hours this week trying different combos and can say without doubt this was the easiest way to do it. I have stored my virtual machine on a FAT32 partition of the USB stick so can even run it from my Windows VirtualBox install when connected to my home PC. (This needs to be the first partition on the stick, otherwise Windows won't see it)

The only issue with using FAT32 is the 4Gb restriction on the VDI. But I got a cut-down XP distro running pretty fast with 512Mb RAM allocation. If you give the FAT32 partition a Label in GParted you can then put a script in your Startup folder like "mount -L label /mnt/myfat" to ensure the VirtualBox config files don't get confused if the drive id of the FAT partition(e.g. sda/sdb etc..) changes when it is mounted on different hosts.

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Some 64-bit VirtualBox 4.1.18 packages for FATDOG64 and LighthousePup have been added!

My access to 64-bit hardware is still a bit unpredictable, but I have managed to make packages for FATDOG64 versions 521 and 601, and for LighthousePup 514-B4. I just finished uploading them a short time ago, and they should now be listed in my packages guide, too.

Some 64-bit VirtualBox 4.1.18 packages for FATDOG64 and LighthousePup have been added!

My access to 64-bit hardware is still a bit unpredictable, but I have managed to make packages for FATDOG64 versions 521 and 601, and for LighthousePup 514-B4. I just finished uploading them a short time ago, and they should now be listed in my packages guide, too.

I'll add this information to the main post.

Thank you for these. You've made VirtualBox a lot easier for many Puppians! Although Lighthouse64 has a System Tool to d/l and install VBox, it requires the large combined devX/kernel src SFS. I'm assuming your Pets do not--a big help for those without a reliable broadband connection, or who prefer not to install an SFS.